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How is Cloud Spanner adoption nowadays? I seem to be hearing lately that more and more teams are looking seriously into adopting it.
by elvinyung 8y ago
How is Cloud Spanner adoption nowadays? I seem to be hearing lately that more and more teams are looking seriously into adopting it.
- tyingq 8y agoThey just added SQL DML (insert/update/delete) a couple of weeks ago. Adoption will probably head up now. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/develop-and-deploy-apps-more-easily-with-cloud-spanner-and-cloud-bigtable-updates https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/develop-and... Edited to note "SQL DML"...
- romed 8y agoTo clarify, you could always do these things via the native RPC interface. They added these things to the SQL interface.
- dijit 8y agoSpanner is absolutely amazing. If you can live with the fact that you’re 100% vendor locked to google. I can’t, so I run Postgres. But cockroachdb doesn’t have this problem.
- stonewhite 8y agoBackup and restore used to be a real pain. You had to write custom spark jobs previously. Currently, it is easier with the new dataflow integration, yet it still is not very smooth. Cloud functions don't have scheduled triggers, so we ended up setting up cron jobs on our K8s to trigger backups.